Nursing Intervention for Improving Nutritional Status in Older Persons
Keywords:
Older Persons, Improvement of Nutritional Status, NursingAbstract
Malnutrition is a problem found in older persons. Nurses play a crucial role in promoting the older persons to obtain a good nutritional status by screening risk factors or factors related to nutritional status, nutritional assessment and improvement of nutritional status among older persons. Firstly, nurses should screen risk factors or factors related to nutritional status by assessing factor related to the metabolic rate of the older persons and factors related to quantity and type of food consumed. Secondly, nurse should assess nutritional status by concerning with change of aging process and use various methods in nutritional assessment including biochemical assessment, clinical assessment, dietary assessment, anthropometric assessment and body mass index as well as nutritional assessment questionnaire. Finally, with improvement of nutritional status, nurses should apply distinguishing strategies, which depend on potential cause of malnutrition, in order to promote older persons to obtain an appropriate food consumption behavior.
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